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Commodity prices across the board sell off on emerging market crisis contagion fears and a stronger dollar.
Industrial metals in particular are suffering, with copper falling to its lowest leve.....»»

European shares rallied to five-month highs on Thursday after Britain's parliament removed a key source of uncertainty by rejecting a no-deal Brexit though somber economic data and trade fears kept a lid on gains......»»

Submitted by Joseph Carson, former director of Global Economic Research, Alliance Bernstein.
President Trump's 2020 budget proposal has many story lines, but the main story is the "chaos" in the numbers. Not only do the economic forecasts appear .....»»

The U.S. economy added a paltry 20,000 jobs in February, which bolstered market jitters of a global economic slowdown, but some on Wall Street looked at the data with skepticism due to the after-effects of the partial government shutdown......»»

Asian stocks shuddered lower on Friday after shockingly weak export data from China heightened market fears about a global economic slowdown, a day after European policymakers slashed growth forecasts for the bloc......»»

A decade after Zimbabwe scrapped its own currency to tackle hyperinflation and began using instead mainly the U.S. dollar, the economy is back in free fall. Fuel and banknotes are hard to come by, less than 10 percent of the workforce is formally.....»»

A decade after Zimbabwe scrapped its own currency to end hyperinflation and began using mainly the U.S. dollar, the economy is back in free fall. Fuel, medicines and other basics are hard to come by and less than 10 percent of the workforce is .....»»